DC Field Facility

Unique Facilities for Users

Millikelvin Facility

Lu Li of the University of Michigan in the Millikelvin Facility, which features superconducting magnets providing experimental temperatures as low as 0.02 degrees K.

Measurement Techniques

More than 20 measurement techniques can be done in the facility's resistive, superconducting, hybrid and split magnets.

World-record Magnets

The facility features several unique record-holders, including the powerful 45 tesla hybrid magnet.

An Active User Program

The DC Field Facility attracts hundreds of users a year. Here Yuanda Gao and Cory Dean conduct a transport experiment on graphene with a 35 tesla magnet.

Located at MagLab headquarters near Florida State University in Tallahassee, the facility offers users the strongest, quietest, steady and slowly varying magnetic fields in the world, coupled with state-of-the-art instrumentation and experimental expertise.

The facility contains 14 resistive magnet cells connected to a 56 megawatt DC power supply and 15,000 square feet of cooling equipment to remove the heat generated by the magnets. The facility also includes several superconducting magnets operating at millikelvin temperatures. Among these instruments are several record holders, including the 45-tesla hybrid magnet, which offers scientists the strongest continuous magnetic field in the world. The research is supported by magnet plant and cryogenic system operators. Technicians design, build and repair instruments for user research. Scholar-scientists — world-class researchers with their own vibrant research interests — work directly with users to get the best measurements and data.

HOW TO APPLY

Our magnets are open to all scientists — for free — via a competitive process and we accept proposals throughout the year.

Latest Science Highlight

Black Phosphorus is a layered semiconducting material that can be thinned down to produce atomically thin crystals. These resulting crystals produce a two-dimensional electron gas 2DEG from the resulting quantum confinement of the electrons. Significant differences exist between the physical properties of the atomically thin crystals versus that of the bulk crystals. Zhang and co-workers were able to observe quantum oscillations in black phosphorus allowing the characteristics of the 2DEG in atomically thin crystals to be elucidated.